December 31, 2008

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In an interview this morning on the CBS “Early Show,” Rep. Bobby Rush compared Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s refusal to seat Roland Burris with the actions of leading segregationists from decades past, including George Wallace and Bull Connor:

Q: Yesterday we heard you say that they shouldn't hang and lynch the appointee to punish the appointer. But do you believe that this is the way the only African-American Senator should be seated? Tainted, rightly or not, by a scandal and against the objections of most of his own party?

Rep. RUSH: Well, let me just say this, you know, the recent history of our nation has shown us that sometimes there could be individuals and there could be situations where school children--where you have officials standing in the doorway of school children. You know, I'm talking about all of us back in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas. I'm talking about George Wallace, Bull Connors and I'm sure that the US Senate don't want to see themselves placed in the same position. I know my friend Harry Reid...

At yesterday's press conference where disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Burris as his appointee, Rush used racially-tinged language to urge the media “not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer.”

“There are no African-Americans in the Senate, and I don't think that anyone, any U.S. Senator who is sitting right now would want to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the U.S. Senate,” he said.

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The election of Barack Obama was a major step forward for race relations in this country. While Mr. Rush's comments did not erase that step, they taint it. The bottom line is a governor who is under investigation like Blagojevich has no business making the appointment. His blatantly political maneuver to save his own career by putting Mr. Burris in this position is shameful.

If the act is legal, then let's move on. Repercussions of not seating Burris could cause for long legal procedures. It would be different if Burris was not qualified for the position, but the man is and really the country does have more pressing issues to deal with.

Bobby Rush should be ashamed of himself because he is just playing payback politics to make PE Obama frustrated at this continuing mess with Gov.Blago. Bobby Rush loss against Barack Obama a few years ago and he's still ----ed that Obama endorsed his opponent in another election, BUT to interject the race card in a progressive state like Illinois that has voted for 2 Blacks to the US Senate, is laughable if this entire fiasco wasn't so sad. Congressman Danny Davis refused to accept this vacate Senate seat when BLAGO asked him to take it last week BUT Roland Burris unfortunately did take it and loss whatever decent reputation he had, because he along with his sidekick Bobby Rush thought that playing the race card would scare the legislators in Springfield & Washington to accept Burris, BUT it will not work.

The long knives are coming out. The clatter of clashing and flashing is just beginning as the festivities in Washington begin to tune up for....The One! Words once spoken, like the chime of a Bell, cannot be "unrung", cannot be unsaid! The smoke of burning bridges is beginning to cloud the pristine panoramic scene for the Messiah Obie's great snifter-lifting coronation! How sublime is it for Illinois politico's to pee on the bridge fire in a half-vast attempt to put it out!

Gov.Blagojevich should not have the authority to appt anyone to any position with the mess he has created because of his own blowned up ego & his financial gain at any cost. This guy needs to be impeached asap so Illinois can take care of business that has been put on the back burner, how scary the thought of this disgusting Governor handling the BILLIONS of dollars coming to Illinois via the Stimulus package that will be signed & implemented to ALL the states by February. Any Governor that would hold up funding of millions of dollars to a Children's hospital because the CEO would not drop a $50.000 contribution to his campaign fund, can't be trusted to manage the state's affair any longer!.

Bobby Rush talking about lynching is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Obama opposes Blago's appointment of Burris, too. Does that make Obama a white racist? This is clearly a case of "crying wolf" when there is none. What will Rush say when _real_ racist wolves show up?

Based on the headline, I thought this blog entry was about Rush Limbaugh. Funny to find out the bigot is of a completely different color... one of the South Side's finest... right up there with Farrakhan, Rev. Wright et al.

the liberal media (I say liberal b/c who runs the media these days? is it not the dope-smoking, frisbee-tossing, handband-wearing slackers who thought they could attack the Man back in the 60s by going into journalism?) created the atmosphere for people like Rush to feel free to throw racial bombs. I predicted this when Obama won - the emergence of Left on Left crime. the liberals cannot help themselves. their whole reason of being is to acquire power through extortion (racial, class, creed, etc...). They do not actually produce anything tangible so they have to propogate the notion that this is a racist country and that they are needed. the elevtion of Obama throws a wrench into that gameplan so here we go, liberals attacking whomever as they get baked into corners.

Seriously? Come on Bobby. Can you really believe you are doing anything positive for your race when you allow yourself to be played by Blago this way? I guess some African-American politicians can't get out of the 20th century and will continue to harbor Reverend Wright-style anger at their own governing institutions and society. It is understandable, and I feel for Congressman Rush. It is sad that a man with clear political skill is allowing himself to be manipulated by Blago.
Good for Danny Davis deciding the Blago appointment was not an appropriate way to get to the Senate.
Illinois has elected MoBro and BHO to the Senate. This state has demonstrated a willingness to vote for the best candidate regardless of race. They only get two seats in the 100 seat Senate, however. Instead of demanding Illinois use race as a litmus test for senator, and that getting in bed with Blago is the way to serve your race, perhaps Rep. Rush and Mr. Burris should ask why no other state save Massachusetts has elected an African-American since Reconstruction ended in the century before the one in which Congressman Rush continues to live.
Being against this pick is not about racism, it is about having enough oxygen flow to your brain to realize Blago is using race to hide his own problems. I wonder if the Little Rascal Rider that is his crumb spewing dirtbag lawyer was behind such a cynical idea or if Blago and Lady MacBlago came up with it on their own.

When a 19 year-old white supremacist recently gained a seat on the Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee, the election created such an outcry that embarrassed local politicians used a technicality to block his seating. The entire process was buffoonish, although the views of the spawn of a grand wizard of the KKK and his supporters were not. Events such as this, or the stunning success of David Duke in Louisiana in 1990, occur every few years within the GOP, a reminder of the party's racist faction.

I had to look again and see if perhaps Blago was somewhere just off camera hold a cocked .45 aimed at Rush. Nope, bobby said this of his own volition and free will. His greatly racist remarks will go down in history as obligatory and condescending because of the white mans power over blacks of course, not because he's a racist bigot just like his mentor JJ! The stain of democrat criminal thuggery will not run or fade when white-washed either, that's been showed as to be a "truther" for many years.

A BLACK MAN DOES NOT HAVE TO ENTER THE U.S. SENATE VIA THE SEWER LINE. THAT IS WHAT BURRIS IS SEEKING TO DO. BURRIS DOES NOT HAVE ANYMORE ETHICAL INTEGRITY THAN DOES BLAGO. THE SENATE MUST NOT SEAT BURRIS BECAUSE HE LACKS THE "ETHICAL" QUALIFICATIONS --- AS DEMONSTRATED BY HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BLAGO IN THIS SCHEME!

Those of you chiming in on either side of this are like putty in the hands of a political shell game being played by a corrupt fool.This Gov is in the toilet and a few want to jump in with the turd in cheif are always welcome.Misery loves company.No one is faulting the appoited .It is the appointee.No one singled this man out but the man under arrest.The senate and the president elect said anyone that the appointor named would sit in that seat long before anyone was named.Now those are the facts but hey, don't let them stand in the way of a good politically motivated racial issue in the pot your trying to bring to full boil here.

Bobby Rush is a fool! I am a former Branch President of the NAACP, and I do not believe for one minute that this has anything to do with Burris' race. It has everything to do with the Democratic Senators' sticking to their guns and not allowing the Governor to select a candidate - whose connection to the Governor will stink the entire time this person holds the seat.
Blago has put all Democrats in a bad position, and Bobby Rush is assisting him in a short-sighted attempt to promote what is a good principle - just poorly executed. All Rush did was make it more difficult to have an African-American follow Pres. Obama.

As a liberal, I am truly ashamed of this ridiculous spectacle. I'm not sure what Bobby Rush?s angle is. But it's idiotic and insulting to the civil rights movement. I hope he goes down the toilet with Blogo.

If this retard can't see that the opposition to Burris has absolutely nothing to do with race, then he deserves to be thrown out of the house for gross incompetence. I sincerely hope his district's voters remember this in 2 years.

Come on people. Blocking this appointment is not about Burris being black. Its about this corrupt governor appointing someone to a senate seat that he wanted to sell to the highest bidder. EVERYTHING this governor does is suspect, people have lose all faith in him.

Bobby Rush is just fanning the flames of racism. He should/must be publically admonished for this disgusting speak. I am a black female and I am appalled that he would try to blackmail the Congress into accepting Mr.Burris as the "place holder" for this seat. Bobby Rush is just plain awful, sickening, and pathetic. He needs to go home and stay inside.
I resent all three of these political bullies and we have no need of them!!!

The Governor of Illinois was and is a shrewd politician. He got caught on tape talking about deals that unless you are totally naive and stupid, happen all the time. That does not make them right but not the kind of political dealings that happen every day.
The charges against him will be and should be decided following the law and he then will get what that due process determines.
Separately but connected is the law that permits and grants him the authority to appoint a Senator. He is still Governor and should be permitted to do so.
There are several sitting Senators who IMO should be bounced and if the Senate wants to go on an ethics campaign should start with the existing members.
The Governor of Illinois fate may first be decided in court and then by the voters.

Bobby Rush should be ashamed of himself for pulling out the race card. The placement of the senate seat by Gov. Blago who is under investigation for a heinous crime is the reason why the democratic congress is bucking Burris...The result of Gov. Blago choosing anyone for the senate seat will ultimately leave a stain on the democratic party....Mr. Rush shouldn't insult the intelligence of the American people this way....That is absolutley wrong...This situation is based on moral, ethical and legal grounds and has nothing to do with ethnicity nor skin color...

The Blagojovich situation,the situation with Obama's former Senate seat, and this guy Burris, is ALL within the Democratic Party and it ALL involves Barack Obama's trail from Illinois to Washington, DC. Obama is smart to hide out in Hawaii.
The certifiable idiot Harry Reid, the Democrat from Nevada, is a master at this kind of screw-up. The guy's judgement is almost as good as Bill Clinton's when dealing with a willing female White House intern.
No fiction author could concoct a story that matches this one--it is the one bright spot in the midst of this dismal economy.

Rush Limbaugh and Bobby Rush are both of the same ilk. They each spew negative, racist, divisive rhetoric to their listners. Those who listen and follow them are as pathetic as they are and are truly pitiful.....Sadly, Limbaugh gets paid $400,000 to spread his awful message and do so under the guise of "entertainment." Sadly, he retards to mental and emaotional growth for those who follow him.... Bobby Rush has been around long enough to have cast his net to a wide swath of people who will react to his negative talk. They, to are sadly stuck in 20th century thinking and action.
For those who choose to follow these two "far-right, far-left wingers," there will be very little change in their attitudes and actions..
For those of us who want to see America in a better light, will work to improve our differences, and strengthen our similarities.
Personally, I can do and will do without both of these awful, pathetic, trouble-makers.

It should be noted that B Rush did NOT endorse Barack Obama for President and has long harbored a grudge against him because Rush's seat was the first elected office Obamma sought. Rush is the tool of Blago and I for one would not at all be surprised to see him go down in flames as the meat of the Blago case is dealt with. The first guy they asked, Davis, wsan't stupid or bitter enough to play the Blago game. B Rush is completely hiding behind his 'racial' argument knowing that the Senate Democrats have already said repeatedly they would not seat a Blago appointee. That knowing manipulation of racial bias against his own party is DEEP treachery. The BTMN song is a dumb move, this is an evil move. In the most literal sense, Three Shames upon Bobby Rush!! Once for being Blago's tool! Once for being a complete hypocrite! And once for betrayal!

No,I don't think that Burris is qualified to take this position.
He has failed several time to become some kind of political person. Now that he has been told to accept this position so that he will be one of the new blacks in the senate does not give him the qualifications to do the job. He was not elected for governor 3 times, but now all of a sudden this governor wants to make him a senator because he says the is well qualified to be one is a big fat lie. What has he done for this governor in order for him to even recommend him for this position, I wonder what will he get out of it.